Church of St Dyfan

This is an Anglican church built in a simple plate traceried style, likely of the 18th century. It consists of a single rectangular vessel with a three-sided apse. The exterior is constructed of squared, snecked red sandstone with flush red sandstone dressings. The roof is stone-tiled, featuring shaped rafter ends and a distinctive spirelet on the ridge between the nave and chancel. The spirelet is an unusual design, resembling a steep, slated pyramid topped by a smaller pyramid and a slated square base, with a double row of low timber trefoil openings (like dove holes) beneath, layered with slate pent roofs on wooden brackets. A cross finial tops the west gable.

The south porch is attractively hipped, with the main roof sloping down and outwards. It has a battered base, a moulded string, and a pointed red sandstone archway. Two cusped lancet windows are on the right side, followed by a single-step buttress with a battered base marking the chancel. The canted apse has a moulded plinth and two-light windows on each of its three sides. The north wall includes a slate-roofed vestry with a two-light north window and a shouldered-headed west door. The nave also has two-light and single-light windows similar to the south side.

Inside, the walls are plastered and whitewashed, and there’s a six-bay boarded roof, without a chancel division. The roof features solid arch-braces to the collar trusses, incorporating wishbone struts. Windows are set in deep, splayed segmental pointed reveals. A red ashlar frame surrounds the cambered-headed south nave door and the pointed north vestry door. The nave floor is tiled with red and black tiles, with two steps leading to the sanctuary, which has timber rails characteristic of Penson, featuring cusped pointed openings and quatrefoils in each spandrel. These openings are secured with iron stanchions, each adorned with two gilded leaves. Encaustic tiles by Maw & Co are found in the sanctuary floor. There are pitch pine stalls and pews, with six open-back pews at the west end. A south-side pine pulpit is hexagonal with pierced quatrefoils in roundels. The octagonal font is whitewashed, featuring quatrefoil panels on four sides and a moulded quatrefoil shaft. Stained glass windows in the three apse two-light windows are by Hardman and depict patterns of circles on clear glass, along with designs of vine, lily, and rose. Other windows have latticed glazing with fleur-de-lys quarries, made by Powells.